Jak mozna czuc sie dobrze na polskiej liscie dyskusyjnej Prawica, jesli na
niej mozna znalezc przede wszystkim dwie rzeczy: moralizowanie z pouczaniem
w jednej osobie labo teksty po angielsku. Czym wiec jest prawica, bo chyba
sie calkiem pogubilem. Na temat angielskich tekstow co prawda pisalem, ale
chyba filtry sobie na mnie pozakladano, bo nijak tego nie przyjeto do
wiadomosci.
SB
----- Original Message -----
From: "roman kafel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list prawica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 3:43 AM
Subject: Prawica: kryminal za krytyke UE
> ISSUE 2112Wednesday 7 March 2001
> Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU
> By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
>
> European Court of Justice
> Now it's blasphemy to mock Europe [Dec '00] - The Spectator
> Criticism of the EU [27 Nov '00] - The Stationery Office
> Address by Bernard Connolly [29 Mar '96] - Centre Party of Sweden
> Bernard Connolly - Bahnhof Internet
> Star Chamber, Court of - Encyclopedia Britannica
> Attainder - New Advent
> Sacheverell, Henry [seditious libel] - The Columbia Encyclopedia
> European Court of Human Rights
>
> THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can
> lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading
> figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European
> precedents on civil liberties.
> The EU's top court found that the European Commission was entitled to sack
> Bernard Connolly, a British economist dismissed in 1995 for writing a
> critique of European monetary integration entitled The Rotten Heart of
> Europe.
> The ruling stated that the commission could restrict dissent in order to
> "protect the rights of others" and punish individuals who "damaged the
> institution's image and reputation". The case has wider implications for
> free
> speech that could extend to EU citizens who do not work for the Brussels
> bureaucracy.
> The court called the Connolly book "aggressive, derogatory and insulting",
> taking particular umbrage at the author's suggestion that Economic and
> Monetary Union was a threat to democracy, freedom and "ultimately peace".
> However, it dropped an argument put forward three months ago by the
> advocate-general, Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, which implied that Mr
> Connolly's criticism of the EU was akin to extreme blasphemy, and
therefore
> not protected speech.
> Mr Connolly, who has been told to pay the European Commission's legal
costs,
> said the proceedings did not amount to a fair hearing. He said: "We're
back
> to the Star Chamber and Acts of Attainder: the rights of defendants are
not
> respected or guaranteed in any way; the offence of seditious libel has
been
> resurrected."
> Mr Colomer wrote in his opinion last November that a landmark British case
> on
> free speech had "no foundation or relevance" in European law, suggesting
> that
> the European Court was unwilling to give much consideration to British
legal
> tradition.
> Mr Connolly now intends to take his case to Europe's other court, the
non-EU
> European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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